> > > http://mamedev.org/?p=402
> > >
> > > Anyone tried them out yet?
> >
> > I'm newb with this stuff and used to my GUI-managed SVN tools.
> >
> > I can run the new tools, but the whole "git clone" operation seems wasteful as it
> > seems to download the entire repository.
> >
> > Is there any easy way to just update to the latest commit? I thought "git pull"
> would
> > do this, but it still seems like it's downloading a ton of stuff.
>
> If you have cloned the repository already, then "git pull" will update to the latest
> commit. If you haven't already cloned the repository, do that instead. It's not
> downloading anything you wouldn't have downloaded while using SVN, so settle down.
>
> I don't get why people are having so much trouble with git. A git clone or git pull
> will download the same damn stuff as a SVN checkout or a SVN update, just with
> different commands, and it has a number of advantages for the developers that I won't
> get into here. It just reeks of a bunch of old people being terrified of something
> new.
Thanks for the help. No need to be a bitch about it.
I'm not aiming to be an expert on GIT. I only need a very small subset of its features for my needs. I figured rather than RTFM, I could explain what I was seeing and ask if it was the appropriate best/use.
Maybe you need to take the internet less seriously.
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